INFANTS' GREETING PATTERNS TO STRANGERS

Infants’ social looking toward mothers and strangers

This study investigated infant social looking in a social referencing procedure with mothers and strangers. Sixty-one infants and their mothers participated when the infants were 18 and 24 months old. The frequency and latency of looking toward each adult when the baby encountered remotecontrolled ambiguous toys were measured. Mothers and strangers (female experimenters) expressed positive or n...

Greeting from the Chairman

An era, a remembrance, a greeting…

I do not wish to commemorate Professor Dagianti based solely on his scientific achievements. It would trivialize his memory. I wish you to remember him as a friend and mentor to all university cardiologists. I am old enough to remember him when he was full of strength and fighting spirit, when he used to discuss with his colleagues about the role of the newborn academic discipline of Cardiology...

Veteran satisfaction with RN voice-mail greeting.

Voice-mail communication is often used to convey information between the registered nurse (RN) and the Veteran. Using a pretest-posttest design, this study examined whether implementation of a standardized voice-mail greeting had an impact on Veteran satisfaction and the number of messages left on the RN voice-mail. Veterans were more satisfied and there was a significant decrease in RN voice-m...

Infants' perception of musical patterns.

This paper examines infants’ ability to perceive various aspects of musical material that are significant in music in general and in Western European music in particular: contour, intervals, exact pitches, diatonic structure, and rhythm. For the most part, infants focus on relational aspects of melodies, synthesizing global representations from local details. They encode the contour of a melody...